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Hey Guys Yum Yum's here. I know I know been awhile! SORRY!!! Haven't been in the mood to make things that "popped" out at me but lend me your.....eyes? yes eyes and read as I kid you not I have an entry!! Okay enough with the big intro's Well its summer so BBQs in the house happening like everyday. Okay maybe every weekend. Yea so Nommie was over this weekend and we both cooked up a special Yummy just for your viewing pleasure (and our eating pleasure ha ha)
Here is the beginning of a well... chocolate explosion. Peanut better polka dot bars!!!
Well just gotta follow along to see whats it turns out to be :)



We took turns doing things as we went along in my kitchen. I did the dry stuff and she did the peanut butter goodness up above:) looks good already don't it?


Ehhh this is the part where it got a little ....dry. The dry and the wet weren't really coming together as mentioned in the recipe. so we added some extra butter and some milk and it still was a little on the dry side but as you can see from this pic it worked out pretty well.


Oh and you see here? the little candies look like M&M's don't they? well thats becase they were! Which for some reason my mom thought it be cool to not listen to me when i was telling her what i needed her to pick up from the store. I asked for Reese Peaces mini's but she ended up getting peanut better M&M's which worked fine too!


Working in motion :)



And finally finished! it over all was pretty good just you would need some milk or water to drink after or while because it was still pretty dry :(

We got this recipe from the Hershey's 2008 edition Holiday Favorites.

Recipe:
* 3/4 cup of butter ,softened ( like i mentioned before i used more so use a whole stick)
* 3/4 cup of creamy Peanut butter
* 2 cups of light brown sugar,packed
* 2 eggs
* 1 tsp vanilla
* 2 1/2 cups of quick-cooking rolled oats (instant oatmeal )
* 2 1/2 cups of flour
* 1 tsp baking soda
* 1/2 tsp salt
* 1 1/3 cup of Reese pieces mini's ( or PB M&M's)
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Chocolate filling:
Melt 1 stick of butter in a saucepan on low heat. Stir in 2/3 cup of cocoa powder and 1/3 cups of sugar. Add 1 can of sweetened condensed milk,cook stirring constantly,until smooth and thick. remove from heat add 1 1/2 tsp vanilla.

Directions:
1) Heat oven to 350,beat butter ,PB and brown sugar until blended well. add eggs and vanilla and mix.
2)stir dry ingredients in a separate bowl. after mixing well add to butter mixture. after combined remove 2 cups of dough.
3) Prepare the chocolate filling. Spread dough into a 13X9X2 in pan. On top of dough spread the filling over and sprinkle some candies over the chocolate.
4) now crumble reserved dough on top of the filling.Bake for 25 mins or until golden brown.

Black Forest Cupcakes

Hey there guys! I made Black Forest Cupcakes for my friend for her birthday. These cupcakes are based off the Black Forest Cakes that people make that have cherry filling and a chocoalte cake that also has whipped cream instead of frosting. These were a lot of fun to make as I had to actually cut open the cupcakes in order to put the cherry filling inside.

As you can see you can take a sharp knife and cut a circle in the top of the cupcake at an angle all the way around. Take off the top and then fill, cut the bottom piece of cake off the part you removed; this is so that you can plug it back up.



She was so happy with them! I actually think they look pretty cute. Since I did not have the cocoa powder or brown sugar needed to make the chocolate cupcakes from scratch, you can make box mix taste even more awesome with these simple tips, as learn from the book Hello, Cupcake!

-replace the amount of water on the box with 1 cup of buttermilk.

-use the same amount of oil as on the box.

- replace the number of eggs with 4 eggs.

Bake as you normally would and when you try them you will defiantely taste the difference!

Mixed Berry Muffins

So everyone has like blueberry muffins so why no try mixed berry muffins. I had run out of the paper liners for the cupcakes so I used left over ice cream cones. The cones tasted good with or without the ice cream :)

Putting the ice cream cones in the spots where the muffins should have been made it easier to keep them standing up in the oven. I highly suggest you do that too. The recipe I used is the same one i use for blueberry muffins except i substitute the blueberries for some frozen mixed berries. The juices of the berrie are what give the muffins their nice purplish/pink color :)

1/2 cupe of butter
2 cups all purpose flour
1 1/4 cups of white sugar
2 eggs
milk ( I add as much as I think it takes to make the mix look right. I find most recipes call for 1/2 cup but that never is enough)
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 1/2 cup of defrosted mixed berries.

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
This is where I do everything differently and just combine everything into one bowl. I still fluff the butter but everything else never goes in different bowls or whatever so just put everthing together.
Beat until combined.
Stir in mixed berries.
Fill muffins pan and bake for 25-30 minutes.

Cornbread

Since I have to get rid of my buttermilk before it expires, I went to try cornbread from the recipe here. Although it has been reviewed over 1000 times and it still has a 5 star rating, this wasn't exactly the cornbread taste i was going for. Perhaps I should have looked for corn muffins instead of cornbread, 'cause I do like the ones from Famous Dave's.

I thought this picture looked nice xD

It ended up breaking when I took it out of the pan... probably because I had forgot to grease it xD

Pancake Muffins!

Hey everbody! I got a recipe from http://www.bakerella.com/ for mini pacake muffins! Of course though I have no mini muffin pans so I figured to make them into the bigger muffins.



Although I totally forgot to double the amount since they are supposed to be mini, so my muffins of regular size weren't that big nor did I get a lot of them.

Also, do NOT use the paper! I didn't think about it but the muffins are a bit too sticky to put the paper on and when you take the paper off you just end up messing up the whole bottom of the muffin. They still taste delicious, but just a word of caution :) From the website, the recipe is as follows:

Mini Maple Chocolate Chip Pancake Muffins

1 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons sugar
2/3 cup buttermilk
1 egg
2 tablespoons pure maple syrup
2 tablespoons melted butter
1/2 cup milk chocolate chips


Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
Combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and sugar in a medium bowl. Sift together with a wire whisk.
In another bowl, stir buttermilk, egg, maple syrup and melted butter until just combined.
Add wet ingredients to dry ingredients and stir with a spoon until combined.
Stir in chocolate chips. Reserve a few chips to sprinkle on the tops.
Bake for 8-9 minutes.
Makes 24 mini pancake muffins.

Sweet payback.

Hello again bloggers and followers,Yum Yum's here. So lets get this kicked off. As you can see from the tittle its payback! yea not the, Im going to murder you kind.The here's something back ,thanks for doing _______ for me kind. The payback is for my good buddy Nommie :)

Well this actually looks very nasty. I bet you cannot guess what im making from this picture....so todays recipe is called "Easy Strawberry cookies"


You can sort of see it now(meaning all the pink-ness) but this is super easy all you need is cake mix and some other things.


How can you not look at this and say mmmmm.They are super easy so even if this is your 1st time baking or what you can make these.

Recipe
-2eggs
-2/3 veg. shortening
-1 box of strawberry cake mix( you can sub other flavors im sure)
-1/2 cup coconut flakes
-1/2 cup nuts of your choosing (optional)
-1/4 tsp coconut extract
-1/4 tsp vanilla extract


*preheat oven to 350
*combine eggs and shortening in a bowl(it doesn't really combine all that awesome, so if you look at the 1st pic thats how it should look before you continue)
*Add 1/2 of the cake mix and blend well,than add the rest of the mix,vanilla and coconut extract.
*when blended add the flakes and mix with clean,dry hands.(you would add the nuts too if you are adding them)
*With a spoon scoop out some dough and roll into balls than place on cookie sheet described below.(the dough is very oily so make sure your hands are dry when touchy the dough)
*bake on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper,and spray lightly with butter flavor cooking spray,for 8-10 minutes.(mine took 15 minutes so watch it carefully)
*let cool and firm up than enjoy :)

Flour in THEE house!!!

Sooo Yum Yum's here! HELLO WORLD! Okay now to the topic at hand,cookies! Yes cookies. I don't know what woman doesn't have a craving for chocolate sometime every month. Well I don't really like to eat chocolate like water,but I was wanting some chocolate overload this time. Hmmm okay sounds fair enough....walk over to cupboard....OH! theres a problem....NO FLOUR!!! WHAT?! how can there be no flour :( Well I told my mom to get some asap,Because I wanted to make some chocolate cookies!


Well as you can see cookie dough was started,meaning pshh my mom only needed to hear once that I was making Chocolate Cookies. So here is just the wet stuff before the flour and whatnot.



As you lovely bakers can see I have a hand electric mixer. If you have one do not be shy,it works a lot when making yummy's. Well to a certain point anyway ,with cookie dough.


Mmmmmm looks good don't it? Yes it looks super good already...well wait till they are baked! Yes you guys can see now its double chocolate cookies. Best thing on earth let me just say. I looked up multiple recipes for these cookies and found the best one,but the website is down right now so I will put the recipe in .I did look at all reviews though and changed somethings to it. Like the sugar. Recipe calls for 1-1/2 cups of white sugar. Well I did 1 cup white and 1/2 cup of light brown sugar(lightly packed).


WOOO they are done!Well here a closer pic (kind of blurry,sorry my camera kind of sucks )......

Yes,Mmmm looks too good! Well let me just say I think the site needs to change the name of them cookies. They were more like brownies! OMG very good and like an explosion of chocolate in every bite! Quote from my mom "I don't want them,but at the same time I cant stop myself from picking up another one..." If thats not enough for you guys make them and go to heaven .

Recipe:
1 cup butter,soften'd
1 cup white sugar
1/2 cup light brown sugar(lightly packed)
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla
2/3 Cocoa powder
2 cups flour
3/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt
2 cups of semi-sweet chocolate chips

*Preheat oven to 350
*In large bowl, beat butter, sugar, eggs, and vanilla until light and fluffy.
*Combine the flour, cocoa, baking soda, and salt; stir into the butter mixture until well blended.
*Mix in the chocolate chips.
*Using a table spoon scoop cookie dough and roll into ball with hands and place on a cookies sheet lined with parchment paper.
*Bake for 8-10 minutes (now you must watch it after this time, I took mine out after 8 minutes and it still wans't done,it took up to 15 for mine to be just right)
let cook and enjoy :)